Linux Development

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This guide assumes you're familiar with the linux console. All commands listed here are supposed to be entered there. For system andministration tasks, you have to be logged in as the superuser 'root'. (K)Ubuntu users need to prepend a 'sudo ' in front of all system administration commands.

Install Development Environment and Dependencies

The method differs from distribution to distribution. Required for all builds are:

* The compiler gcc/g++ and its libraries
* Python
* the library libxml2

For 0.2.8 client builds, you need development files for

* OpenGL
* SDL
* SDL_image
* libpng

For trunk builds, you need

* boost

For trunk client builds, you'll also need

* SDL_mixer
* freetype
* ftgl
* GLEW (optional right now)

(K/X)Ubuntu

To get all of this at once, enter at the console

sudo apt-get install g++ python libxml2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libfreetype6-dev libftgl-dev libglew1.5-dev libpng-dev libboost-dev

Tested with Kubuntu 8.10.

Debian

Should be identical to Ubuntu, but without the sudo, and instead you need to be logged in as root.

Fedora/Red Hat

yum install SDL-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel freetype-devel ftgl-devel glew-devel python boost-devel

Yay for sane package names.

Gentoo

To get all of this at once (minus python and g++, which are installed by default), enter at the console

emerge libxml2 libsdl sdl-image sdl-mixer freetype ftgl glew libpng boost

Boost takes a long time to build, so you may want to omit it if you don't need it.